Bed Quote by Franz Grillparzer

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

— Shunryu Suzuki

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

— Jennifer Gilmore

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

— Thomas Carlyle

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

— Katherine Center

“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I…

— Robin Hobb

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

— William Kristol

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to…

— John Banville

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

— Finley Peter Dunne

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White